Advanced Forms for ACF

Great plugin, and the support is excellent, the developers have done a great job.

This plugin is a very good addition to the already very good and high-quality ACF.

I was a long time user of Caldera Forms, which never was good (very poor quality). As developer, I often had to customize forms… this always was a struggle with Caldera Forms, but worked…

And lately a user of its successor Ninja Forms (Pro)… Unfortunately, Ninja Forms doesn’t stand to its advertising… support, quality..

Because of the general very high quality of ACF I always wanted to switch to ACF based forms, but hesitated because of ACF itself. (I’m a long term user of ACF pro too and using it in nearly every project).

The problem with ACF is its quite “end user unfriendly” and very technical UI…

But after another frustrating project using Ninja Forms, I bit the bullet and switched to Advanced Forms (Pro) and Advanced Custom Fields Pro.

And I only regret not to have done this earlier. The pros just outweigh the cons multiple times…

(To admit: I currently only use it in projects where the end user has not to work with the forms directly. This might be a problem in the future, but maybe not.)

Advanced Forms Pro is an essential component to our patient and animal intake system – a system which integrates Acuity Scheduling, WordPress-ACF, Zapier and Google Workspace apps.

AF Pro’s API is used to pre-fill ACF form fields with URL query string values initially generated in Acuity. After that, AF Pro’s Zapier API passes to Google raw field values, and computed values, which populate placeholders inside a G-Doc template. Then, automatically created Workspace folders receive new intake G-Docs derived from the populated templates. The folders also receive image files passed to Google via AF Pro’s Zapier integration.

Largely thanks to AF Pro, and Fabian’s outstanding tech support, I was able to pull this whole thing off. My client is absolutely over-the-moon at all the functionality and subsequent tremendous time savings the system is providing them.

Thank you!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by neuromorph.

This is a really useful set of tools for those of us who rely on ACF. Goes way beyond the basic field and form interface with a whole host of ready to use helper functions. Well documented and clear.

We’ve used the pro version of Advanced Forms for a couple of years and could not be happier with the functionality and support. This is a great solution for forms, and it’s especially useful when collecting user-submitted content. Can’t recommend Advanced Forms and the folks at Hookturn enough. We’ve used all three of their pro plugins and they are all of excellent quality.